Redditors Tell Their Favorite G-Rated Jokes

Comedy can be difficult to enjoy with kids around—but the clean comedians of Reddit are here to offer you their best, profanity-free material.

“Family-friendly” films usually strive to include jokes clever enough to make adults laugh without confusing their offspring, but it’s a delicate balance that’s easy to mess up. As any parent (or uncle who watches a tremendous amount of television with his nieces and nephews) knows, once you run through the Disney classics and Pixar library, genuinely funny kids’ shows can be difficult to find.

(Unless PAW Patrol makes you laugh, in which case you have 72 episodes to keep you entertained for months!)

In the spirit of finding as many jokes as possible that adults and kids can enjoy together, user Alkomb posed this question to the Ask Reddit community: “What G-rated joke always cracks you up?”

In response, redditors delivered over 5000 comments full of one-liners, silly stories, ridiculous riddles, and wordplay worthy of a popsicle stick. Sure, their jokes might be cheesy, but who doesn’t love a little G-rated cheese?

Weight for It…

Hippos been a fixture of the comedy world since Gayla Peevey’s novelty holiday song “I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas” debuted in 1953—peaking with this scene from Adam Sandler’s 1999 film Big Daddy:

And undergoing a brief revival in this brief Madagascar parody on Family Guy:

But fans of hippo comedy can rejoice in a new joke about their favorite sub-Saharan cetacean: